Being and Nothingness: An Essay in Phenomenological Ontology 1st Edition

The translation is awesome and fits the meaning and thoughts of the author with little ambiguity. This is a great translation of Sartre.

Don’t know this book (or is it a record)? I bought this for my husband and Healy liked it slow.

I'm a purist I believe and I want a book that does not or has to the up-most minimal amount of changes to the original text and this company has decided all by themselves and feeling darn proud of it that they had the nerve to add commas and colons semi-colons essentially changing his original intent and way of communicating it's really sad and i'm not really happy but I'll put up with this because i can't afford another expensive hardcover of being and nothingness ...DISAPPOINTING!

Okay, book’s great. We all know it. But I want to talk about it’s ability to impact us today. The idea that this book translates well to 2020 is absurd. We have long since left the thirst for knowledge and introspection behind and in their place we have evolved into consumer driven, “fun” loving, self centered, narrow minded lemmings. Lovable and cuddly. We no longer gather in small adult groups to dususs why we’re here or what matters, etc. Sure we have environmental groups, political radicals debating communism and or some such law of political jurisdiction. But these are top view. And often ineffective. Very, very few people want to discuss the nature of self at a cocktail party or any kind of party for that matter. Truffaut has been replaced by Tom Cruse (yes I’m aware of exceptions like Donnie Darko and Extinction but they are just that, exceptions). Bob Dylan by Lady Gaga. Even our schools smother any ambition at learning beyond 2+2 or See Dick and Jane Run. “Pseudo intellectual” is a powerful epitaph that will crush a spirit to contemplate in a heartbeat. Yessir, with very few exceptions, todays generations have had the desire to understand life’s deeper meanings swept under the rug. If you purchased and read this book, even if you understood not one word, bravo!